Want to use your finance and analytical skills to help local businesses around the world thrive?

Groupon’s mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfill our purpose of building strong communities through thriving small businesses by connecting people to a vibrant, global marketplace for local services, experiences and goods. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. Are you ready to take more ownership of your career? If so, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

The Director, Marketing Finance will lead the Global Marketing Finance Team and report directly into the Vice President, Commercial Finance. They will serve as the primary finance partner to the Chief Marketing Officer and a key business partner to the VPs within the CMO’s organization and the VPs of our lines of business (Local, Goods, Travel, etc). Are you looking for a way to challenge yourself in a high impact role?

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and passionate about helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work? Why don't you start by meeting some of the finance professionals around the world who are re-inventing the finance model at Groupon.

You'll spend time on the following:

• Overseeing the Global Marketing P&L, including day-to-day operations, forecasting and planning cycles, month end close variance analysis and global spend allocation

• Managing and leading a high-performing Global Marketing Finance team, based in Chicago and London -- overseeing talent development, process standardization and task prioritization to ensure Marketing Finance is maximizing its benefit to the business

• Leveraging data and financial analysis to provide actionable insights to the Marketing Leadership team and drive business decisions

• Partnering effectively with senior business and finance leaders globally, demonstrating self awareness and maintaining poise and composure in a dynamic environment

• Serving as the Finance expert for all marketing channels, partnering with senior leadership across global Marketing, Operations and Finance teams to align on strategy and maximize return on investment

• Performing deep analysis on broad customer behavioral shifts, like the migration toward mobile devices and away from web. Evaluating financial implications and providing senior leadership with specific and actionable guidance

• Providing insights and financial support around driving customer lifetime value, lifecycle management and customer growth

We're excited about you if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field (MBA preferred)

• 15+ years of experience in Finance leadership roles, ideally in both large companies and high growth, fast-paced companies; specific experience in Marketing Finance preferred

• Strong leadership, communication and business partnership skills, with the ability to interpret and summarize complex data to help achieve strategic and operational goals

• Experience in managing and developing a global team

• Highly analytical, strategic thinker who has a results oriented and “builder” mentality – identifies problems quickly and is eager to build innovative solutions

• Superior intellect and a true business partner – capable of contributing to broader business conversations beyond their functional expertise

• Comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, start-up environment

• Strong business judgment and excellent project management skills

Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.